The Iceman: The True Story Of A Cold-Blooded Killer (2013) - Plot & Excerpts
Like many true accounts, it is not all that well written, but the story itself is more than enough to carry the book. I saw the movie first and thought it was fiction and found myself disliking the movie for all the gratuitous violence, and thinking it was so over the top it passed the point where I could suspend my disbelief. When the credits rolled and I discovered it was not gratuitous at all, since it was a true story, I was in shock, and my assessment reversed. When I found there was a book of the same story I had to read it. Then I discovered that what I thought was unbelievable excess in the movie was actually toned down from the TRUE extent of the man's capacity for violence.I have always had a fascination for the duality of the human nature, the simultaneous potential for both good and evil that exists in everyone, but especially the psychopaths and criminals, who rationalize their deeds so that they can still see themselves as essentially good people, but it is not only through their own eyes, the very worst criminals usually have people they care about, and who care about them.This book certainly gets into not only the gory facts, but also a past that could have contributed to who he became, and that mysterious dichotomy of a killer's heart combined with a (to *some* extent) genuinely caring and loving family man.I give it 5 stars for story, and 4 for writing - but like I said, few true stories are recounted by authors capable of true literature, but for the most part that is neither necessary nor expected.
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